Wide view of Playa de la Arena, Tenerife, Canary Islands.

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Playa de la Arena

Canary Islands · Spain

Playa de la Arena, Spain
Part of Playa de la Arena near Santiago del Teide in Tenerife.

The short version, from the cited sources

Playa de la Arena is a resort town located south of Los Gigantes and Puerto Santiago resorts in the Santiago del Teide municipality on the West Coast of Tenerife, Spain.

Country
Spain (ES)
Region
Europe
Surface
Sand
Administrative area
Canary Islands
Access
Public access (OpenStreetMap).
Timezone
Atlantic/Canary
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2012-05-06

Names in the record

Playa de la Arena

No alternate names were supplied by the source.

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  • Water and swimming character
  • Accessibility
  • Facilities and lifeguards
  • Seasonality and crowd pattern
  • Current hazards and restrictions
  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

28.22974, -16.84148

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Direct provenance

Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.

    ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  3. Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.

    CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  4. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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